Hi Remko,

thank you for you your reply.

I'm having the same problem Frans has. I can't put the sample app to work. 

When you say that it is not supported with outsystems now and "have to create your own native app", you say that you need to create a mobile app in service studio and then generate a native app? I did that but i don't get any return. 

best regards

Antonio Barroso

Hi Antonio, yest you need to generate your native app, or to test you can generate native app for sample app. OutSystems Now is app pre generated with some plugins that Outsystems integrate, any order plugin will be avaiable only when you build a native app, this is the moment when OutSystems Native Builder will copy your plugin or plugins to an app.

Hi Alexandre

Like i said, i have generated a native app for the sample app, i run-it on my mobile device but it doesn't work. No log, no locations, just two blank pages. What is missing?

best regards

Hello, Antonio, what platform (Android, iOS? When the application was started did the prompt appear asking for permission to access the GPS?

Hollo Alexandre

I built the native app for android. 

No, there is no prompt asking for permission to use GPS when starting the application. 

When installing the apk file, the acess to GPS is one of the permissions the app needs, and i accepted the list

When running the application, during the loading screen, there is a "licenceValidationFailure" message. It disapears in a second, i just notice it now

Hi António thanks for your repply I saw problem. The plugin I used has a licensing for Android and it's free for iOS and I did not know. I'm going to change the font of the plugin to solve this problem. 

Another way for you to get the GPS monitoring feature would be to use my other Plugin BackgroundMode, this plugin keep your app running in background and you can use GPS plugin by OutSystems.

Plugin

https://www.outsystems.com/forge/component/1727/backgroundmode-plugin/

Demo

https://www.outsystems.com/forge/component/1728/backgroundmode-demo/

Hi Alexandre

I will explore the other plugin

Thank you

best regards

António Barroso

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for the quick replies! All very insightfull info. We're going to try the native app route.

For now, just one more question. How can you tell if a plugin works within the Outsystems Now app? For example, the Google Maps Mobile plugin is listed as not supported by Outsystems, but I have created an app with that plugin and it runs fine within Outsystems Now on my iPhone. So "not supported by Outsystems" and "not supported within Outsystems Now app" are two different things?

Hello Frans I think it's making a bit of mess, being supported by OutSystems Now means that when the OutSystems Now native app was generated the plugin was built-in during build and is available for use, eg camera access plugin, GPS, bar code reading and others. Having support from the OutSystems team is another matter, for example you mentioned Google Maps, in this case it is not a Cordova Plugin but a javascript component developed by the Outsystems Labs team and made available on Forge. When the component is officially supported you will see in red written SUPPORTED. I hope I have helped.

Hi Alexandre,

have you made any progress yet on the background location plugin?

Kind Regards

Joerg

Hi Alexandre,

I could get the plugin to work on Android using

{
    "plugin":
    {
        "url": "https://github.com/transistorsoft/cordova-background-geolocation-lt.git"
    },
    "preferences": {
        "android": [
            {
                "name": "cordova-background-geolocation-license",
                "value": "4bbb513c013111eae951647fd4f9e79f127fce6f7a00e9d327db9ea2a053a0df"
            }        
        ]
    }
}

in Extensibility Configurations and generating the apk using

com.transistorsoft.backgroundgeolocation.ionic

as App identifier.

I hope this helps some other people too. Could you eventually add the above to the documentation / description of the plugin?

Kind Regards

Joerg Peters 

I am the creator of Cordova Background Geolocation.

@Alexandre Costa You should never recommend the cordova-plugin-background-mode plugin:  That plugin is toxic.  You're pretty much 100% guaranteed to be rejected by Apple with that plugin.  Search that plugin's issues for "Apple":  Nothing but tears.

That plugin achieves its "magic" by requesting the "background audio" capability.  If you're making a Music Player app, that's fine.  If not, REJECTED.

If anyone has any questions about licensing, you can ask me directly.

Valuable information! Looking forward to seeing your notes posted. Thank you for sharing the nice article. Good to see your article.  fastpokemap

@Alexandre Costa.

You misunderstand.  

I am the creator of cordova-background-geolocation.  I highly recommend this plugin.  It follows Apple best-practices for background operation :)

I am not the creator of cordova-plugin-background-mode.  It is that plugin which I referenced as toxic and to be avoided.

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